Railway stations and airports are all well and good but nothing really compares to arriving somewhere by boat. It’s intrinsically […]
Archive for ‘Travel’
All about eve
There’s something beguiling about eves. As in the evening before, not people called Eve. New Year’s Eve, Passover Eve, ‘twas […]
Look at it this way
This year, most of us have become much more familiar with our direct surroundings. For a while I stopped walking […]
Circling Japan again
We may be in the full flush of spring in Sydney but my mind keeps thinking of autumn in the […]
In Patagonia: part 2 (finding the fabulous)
Travel is addictive. The moment you feel comfortable somewhere, you start to wonder where to go next. It’s a craving, […]
In Patagonia: part 1 (from pumas to pinnacles)
I’ve always thought a bucket-list sounds a bit clinical, more a matter of ticking things off rather than savouring them. […]
Zesty Zurich
If life hadn’t thrown the curveball of a pandemic, I should have been arriving in Switzerland around now to spend […]
The secret service of style
Where does our personal taste come from? I reflect on this occasionally, especially when I see new buildings going up […]
Defying the darkness
The Danish idea of hygge – cosiness – might well be a noughties fad that’s come and gone but surely […]
Penguins and politics
In the late 1980s I decorated two display homes in a housing development near Marbella on the Costa del Sol. […]
